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The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as \"How should I react here, as a professional black person?\" and \"Will this white person's potato salad kill me?\" are forever relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker \u003c\/em\u003echronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a condition that's sometimes stretched to absurd limits: creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story about it; provoking the angst that made him question if \"being straight\" was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble; and generating the surreal experience of watching his Pittsburgh neighborhood getrify from predominantly Black to \"Portlandia . . . but with Pierogies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she were white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of our most respected cultural observers, \u003cem\u003eWhat Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker \u003c\/em\u003eis a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eIbram X. 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The act of possessing black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst, where questions such as \"How should I react here, as a Professional Black Person?\" and \"Will this white person's potato salad kill me?\" are forever relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles Young's efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a condition that's sometimes stretched to absurd limits: creating the farce where, as a teen, he wished for a white person to call him a racial slur just so he could fight him and have a great story to tell about it afterward; provoking the angst that made him question if \"being straight\" and being more confident around girls was something he could practice and get better at, like a crossover dribble; and generating the surreal experience of watching his Pittsburgh neighborhood gentrify from predominantly black to \"Portlandia but with Pierogies.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, at its most devastating, it provides him reason to believe that his mother would be alive today if she had been white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom one of our most respected cultural observers, \u003cem\u003eWhat Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker\u003c\/em\u003e is a hilarious and honest debut that is both a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.\u003c\/p\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Eric Dyson, author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Truth Sounds Like\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAprovocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be black (and a man) in America\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Damon Young, existing while black is an extreme sport. 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